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Life Insurance

Valued advice proves a winner

28 November 2006

Financial planners have celebrated the best of their own with the FPA inaugural Value of Advice Awards…

Life insurance statistics boom

21 November 2006

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has released the Life Office Market Report, which covers the life insurance sector…

FPA cautious on compulsory PI

14 November 2006

The Financial Planning Association of Australia is cautiously reviewing moves by the Federal Government to make professional indemnity insurance compulsory for financial planners…

FPA wants co-regulatory model

07 November 2006

The Financial Planning Association says the regulatory system for financial planners in Australia should be a co-regulatory model…

FPA turns a profit

07 November 2006

The FPA has reported a $606,000 surplus for the 2006 financial year, helping to return its reserves to 2003 levels…

New professional services manager for FPA

31 October 2006

Educationist Deen Sanders has been hired by the Financial Planning Association to manage a new division that incorporates three of the association’s areas of work…

Life insurance stable for 2007

31 October 2006

Australia’s life insurance industry is in a strong position going into next year, with ratings agency Standards & Poor’s predicting further profitability…

FPA lends a hand on SOAs

24 October 2006

In a bid to help its members create clear, concise and effective statements of advice, the peak financial planning body has updated a guide that it published late in 2004…

FPA moves on ad campaign

24 October 2006

The FPA has launched the next stage of its “value of advice” ad campaign…

FPA announces election result

17 October 2006

The board of the Financial Planning Association has unanimously voted for Chairman Corinna Dieters to serve a second year in the position…

New board for IFSA

17 October 2006

The Investment and Financial Services Association has announced a new board line-up…

Bloch becomes a blogger

17 October 2006

Anyone who’s anyone has got one, and now FPA CEO Jo-Anne Bloch has joined the cyber-communication bandwagon…

Industry backs life standards

10 October 2006

The new package of draft prudential standards and guidance for the life insurance industry is a “good news story” for policyholders…

FPA takes stock of member views

10 October 2006

94% of Financial Planning Association members say that increasing the awareness and promoting the value of financial planning to the general public is relevant or very relevant…

Work together, says Zurich

03 October 2006

Alarmingly low levels of life insurance among Australians will remain unless the industry gets its act together to raise the level of risk awareness, according to Zurich…

Retirement savings near $1 trillion

03 October 2006

The prospect of more relaxed taxation and withdrawal arrangements has helped boost Australia’s funds under management by almost 20% over the 12 months to June this year…

Don’t let Westpoint put you off, says FPA

26 September 2006

The collapse of WA property group Westpoint should not deter Australians from consulting financial advisers, according to the Financial Planning Association…

FPA broadens CFP accreditation

26 September 2006

The FPA has revised its experience requirements for planners seeking certified financial planner status to be more in line with a typical career path…